[cma-l] BBC funding for local TV/Not local radio

[Chris Haydon]

Dear all,

Speaking from the broadband community media 'sector', I would like
to say that I am as amazed as all of you labouring away on little or
nothing in radio. The footprint of TV sounds fun though personally
I remain as sceptical as ever about its practicability. I come from
broadcast TV and know what it takes, staff, capacity, tech support,
and so on.
Syphoning off the BBC licence fee is an obvious funding method for
TV, web-based local media and radio.
I stick with the web-based area because of its accessibility,
flexibility (multimedia etc), and low cost. Fund one person to
operate as the 'hub' for a community and much can be activated and
facilitated. It really doesn't cost much.
The BBC millions could go a very long way on that basis.

On we go !

Chris Haydon
Community TV Trust
Southwark.TV
(based in Peckham)



Quoting claire penketh <clairepenketh at yahoo.co.uk>:

>  Couldn't agree more. Was ever thus unfortunately. Radio always has   
> been the poor cousin of its more glamourous counterpart, TV. Bit   
> like Cinderella. we need a rich Prince Charming in the government to  
>  give the go ahead for consistent funds to cover at least some   
> running costs ... Lets face it, radio is relatively cheap to run, in  
>  comparison to TV.. so we should win the cost effective arguement   
> hands down.
>    
>  Claire Penketh
> Stroud FM Station Manager
>  
> Better to have given it a go than never to have tried at all
>  
>
> --- On Sun, 24/10/10, Steve Suttie <stevensuttie at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Steve Suttie <stevensuttie at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] BBC funding for local TV/Not local radio
> To: "mark polden" <markianpolden at hotmail.com>
> Cc: "<cma-l at commedia.org.uk>" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> Date: Sunday, 24 October, 2010, 16:01
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> Forgive me, but is this not ironic?
>
> There are 230 community radio stations licensed with no plausible   
> fund to support them.
>
> But here is a massive fund for community telly that doesnt exist yet.
>
> I'm astonished by how ineptly this sector is organised.
>
> Am I missing something, or are the DCMS having a laugh? Blimey, I   
> can't articulate how frustrated and bemused this announcement has   
> made me feel.
>
> But its helped me think of a nice strapline for the sector!   
> 'Community Media in the Uk - Running the London Marathon today,   
> Learning to walk tommorrow.'
>
> Blimey. I'm off to ask my wife to wake me up now.
>
> Yours in utter bewilderment
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 22 Oct 2010, at 18:07, mark polden <markianpolden at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why, why, why not funding for community radio. Unfortunately   
>> seemingly our goose is cooked for this settlement as this   
>> government has gone off half cocked already.
>>
>> Mark Polden
>> Flame CCR
>>
>> > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:33:31 +0100
>> > To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
>> > From: sbuckley at gn.apc.org
>> > Subject: [cma-l] BBC funding for local TV
>> >
>> > Letter from DCMS to the BBC (extract)
>> >
>> > "The BBC will play an active role in supporting
>> > new local television services through a
>> > partnership fund providing capital costs of up to
>> > a total of £25m in 2013/14 for up to 20 local TV
>> > services, subject to any necessary regulatory
>> > approval. The BBC will also commit to ongoing
>> > funding of up to £5m per annum from 2014/15 to
>> > acquire content for use on its own services from
>> > these new services. Should capital costs be
>> > required earlier then this will be facilitated by
>> > access to the existing digital switchover underspend by mutual agreement."
>> >
>> > Source (and letter in full):
>> >   
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/22/bbc-funding-settlement-jeremy-hunt
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Chris Haydon
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Community TV Trust
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